Thank you. Mr. Chairman, there are some points there. The first one about why the RCMP have suggested that a one person detachment is not the greatest idea, as I understand it, the reason for that is a safety issue and has to do with minimum standards, in today's standards, that you would expect a police force to have if they were to be in a particular area. There are things like call-out time and the amount of time that one particular staff might be on call. It is important to point out that the Community Constable By-law Program does not give you a full-time, full-service police officer. What you get with this program, in most cases, is a by-law officer who is better trained, who now has been training in things like law, self-defence, firearms and community policing, who is now appointed as a peace officer and has the power of arrest, where otherwise there would not have been a person in that position if this program was not there. In most cases, rather than setting a full-service police officer, what you are doing is enhancing safety and security in the communities. That is the main idea because of the fact that we cannot afford all these extra officers in the different communities.
On the costing issue, I would have to check on that but I would imagine that in most cases the extra funding is for the training and for the extra time that a by-law officer who is already working in and budgeted for by a hamlet, it is to top up the money that is already there.